A trial attorney-turned-comedian, Lindsay Glazer, moved to Las Vegas in 2020 to ride out the pandemic. Her new album, “Thanks, Dad,” was recorded in December in the Wiseguys Comedy Club on Main Street.
You are a trial attorney as well as a comic. Were there unexpected similarities between the two professions?
They’re both performance skills. Even before I got to comedy, I did some stuff with jury selection. There were studies done that the more laughs you get per minute in a jury — even if it’s a murder case — the more likely you are to win the case. Making people laugh is what connects them to you. Everything’s a sales job, right? You sell a not-guilty verdict to a jury, you sell laughs to an audience — everything’s about getting someone on your side and being likable.
In 2023, when one hopes inroads would have been made, what’s it like for a woman in comedy?
I’d say law was harder, actually, from a male-dominated standpoint. Well, I shouldn’t say law is male-dominated — criminal-defense law is male dominated. There you had to fight much harder as a woman to get pleas and verdicts. Yes, being a female comic, some people think it’s easier, some people think it’s harder. It's getting better in 2023, but, like everything, we want more. “Women always want more.” (Laughs.) I think we should have all-female lineups — but we shouldn't call them "all-female lineups." We should call them "comedy shows."
Do you find Las Vegas a good place to live for someone in your line of work?
Yeah, Las Vegas has lots of regional oddities and things you can write about. It’s the only place where I’ve ever had a Michael Jackson impersonator, a talking parrot, and a zombie little person open for me. I mean, Las Vegas is basically like New Orleans mixed with Florida Man.
But Vegas is a very hard place to work out new material. Because you're either in an A club, where you're only gonna do your A stuff, or it's open mics. There are not a lot of, let's call them, "curated bar shows," or medium B and C clubs where you can get more than 10 minutes. To really develop new material, you have to stay on the road.
